tisdag 15 december 2009

It feels like this blog has come to be about me learning Adobe Illustrator.

I met Rene Engström at a eggnog-party last friday, and she told me about how she draws her comic Anders loves Maria directlyin illustrator. This was very interesting for me to hear, as this program has taken up my time quite a lot recently. She explained that she sketch and "ink" the comics with her drawingpad. I thought "Hey, I also have a drawingpad, maybe I should try the same thing!"

So, last saturday I tried out my skills with the drawingpad combined with Illustrator. I began by drawing a quick sketch in blue,

as this is the way I usually do by hand.

I then did the "inking" over the blue afterI had created a new layer on top of the blue.After that I created a new layer and put it under the "Ink" layer.I did a few coloring and lighting effects.To hell with the outlines, who really needs them?But I wanted more out of this picture ...

... So I did a background!

In this complete picture I have experimented a bit with gaussian blur to get the picture focused on the girl, and perhaps create some kind of photographic feel to the whole mess.

fredag 20 november 2009

onsdag 18 november 2009

As a result of a job that Im doing I have started to do a lot of pictures in Adobe Illustrator. I like this program because it's simple to work with and because It has a lot of features which I have not yet learned. I started to do all these images instead of doing what I really should be doing, my adventurestory.

Tomorrow I will embark on a 24 hour journey into the depths of my story and try to find out a lot of stuff, especially the ending. To my help I will have a lot of coffee.

I was going to do a lot of other stuff, but I got stuck in illustrator and decided to try and learn something more about stuff in this program. The thing I have learned most about today is how to combine the gradient tool with the blending mode "screen".

So, this weekend I have been to some openings and stuff, me and Mattias Elftorp won a drawing-battle against Kim W Andersson and Fabian Göransson, I got on second place in a costume-contest on Debaser, really nothing to talk about ...

Let's just continue with Barton, shall we?

PAnel 1: >Brton is trying to go through with a very simple comic-strip ...

fredag 23 oktober 2009

Tonight im going to Debaser in Malmö to Åsa Ekströms releaseparty for her new book Sayonara September! We celebrate this with a strip comic that was rejected by Sydsvenskan, a Swedish newpaper situated in Malmö. I have six strips, and this is the first one:

Panel no. 2: The next day ...Barton: Uuuhhh My head!Bird:Stop being a whimp Barton, get a job!

onsdag 21 oktober 2009

Today a new issue of webcomic-magazine Babian.se is released! I have a comic there! One of my favourites is Kalle Landegren's contribution, Clownen Jorgi, a psychedelic story about a clown. The clown is a common figure in horror-movies and comics, almost a bit over-used, but Kalle get's away with it by his cool "retro" style and insane and grotesque humor.